Sentences with phrase «of women farmers»

I asked one of the women farmers, «what does green mean to you?»

Seriously, if we want to promote climate justice at the negotiations, we have to take some times to think about the living conditions of these women farmers.

One almost dare not enter a more primitive shed by Mika Rottenberg, where a collective of women farmers on video is molding cheese — or perhaps someone else's liquid remains.

Representatives of the aspirants, who seemed not prepared for the encounter, digressed more on what their respective political parties will do for general farming in the country but not addressing the problems of the women farmers.

The leaders of the women farmers took turns to express their problems including credit facilities, lack of marketing for their produce after harvesting, and farm inputs to increase their farms.

Working alongside Cocoa Horizons, they aim to create new opportunities for women to enable them to earn a better living, by helping to fund the training of women farmers to help them set up and manage a farm from scratch.

The seed of a sorghum variety from KwaZulu / Natal was obtained at an agricultural show of women farmers from communities in the northern part of the province.

Farmers, local governments, and businesses in the Peruvian Amazon are working to conserve forests, build climate resilience, and strengthen the role of women farmers.

According to a testimony at the Asian Women's Tribunal held in Bangkok in 1994, a group of women farmers had taken out a protest march to the developer of prawn farms, shouting «Don't take our land!»

In her book The Challenge for Africa she explains it by highlighting the dilemma of a woman farmer in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and through her, our collective challenge and opportunity.

Not exact matches

He says Congress needs to set aside peripheral complaints — fast — to help people like «Marty the farmer,» a woman who stopped him at a Chick - fil - A to complain about the cost of her insurance.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

Through a new smallholder farmer loan initiative with the Inter-American Developmental Bank (IDB) directed toward a women - led coffee cooperative, and an expanded partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) aimed at helping young coffee farmers in post-conflict zones build greater resiliency and expertise, Starbucks will help create opportunities in some of Colombia's most vulnerable coffee growing communities.

The four parables: the parable of the sower who went out to sow; the parable of the leaven in which a woman puts in three measures of flour till it was leavened; the parable of the mustard seed; and the parable of the farmer who sows and then waits day and night in anticipation of the harvest; these form one group.

When he considered the birds of the air, the flowers of the field, the setting sun, when he saw a farmer ploughing a field, a woman patching a garment, a child rebuked by his disciples, a person ravaged by illness — he was alive to God's presence and will.

Farmers, fisherfolk and indigenous people, especially women producers of food and other primary products suffer from the globalization in most Asian countries.

Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and rural training of women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.

It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

Over 80 % of the employees are women and they support hundreds of small - scale herbal tea farmers in their community.

Sure, he was a bit of a Bible - thumper, but he also supported women's suffrage, advocated for the rights of laborers and farmers, and so passionately opposed U.S. involvement in World War I that he resigned as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

note: «Although the industrialized world thinks of farming as men's work, most of the world's farmers are women.»

Globalization has resulted in gross human rights violations for millions of workers (particularly women workers), peasants and farmers, and indigenous communities.

He advised youths not to take monastic vows, for he was convinced that the works of members of religious orders are not more praiseworthy in the sight of God than are those of the farmer in his field and of the woman in her household duties.

They were the MST (Movimento dos sem terra / Movement of the Landless) from Brazil, PICIS (Policy and Information Center for International Solidarity) from South Korea, FENOP (Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes / National Federation of Farmers Organisations) from Burkina Faso, the Women Movement from Quebec, the Mouvement des Chômeurs (Movement of the Unemployed) from France)

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

These organisations are: The movement of landless farmer (MST) from Brazil, a co-ordination of Trade Unions from South Korea, a farmers movement from Burkina Faso (FENOP), a Women's, movement of Quebec and the Movement of the unemployed in France.

I was also killing two birds with one stone and met the woman I get ground beef from at the farmer's market to pick up 10 lbs of grass fed ground beef for $ 60.

«We have long been developing relationships with farmers who grow grain to the exacting standards of our customers and our third - party certifying body; these men and women are the foundation of our quality,» the company says.

This effort has led to 1,510 women out of 6,055 farmers (approximately 25 % in total) enrolling in the OFIS.

In addition, 1,395 women out of 5,637 total farmers have actively participated in the training program.

Based on its own financial analyses and case studies, Root Capital's revised 18 - page scorecard places greater emphasis on providing farmers with agronomic assistance and including women in influential enterprise roles, each of which the group believes contributes to measurably greater financial return.

During the plenaries Moises Quispe, speaking on behalf of INOFO members from 5 continents, illustrated the actions organic farmers» organizations undertake to secure the future of family farming namely working with youth, women and value chains for healthy systems.

# 36 on Gourmet's list of 50 Women Game - Changers in Food is Severine von Tscharner Fleming — farmer, activist, and filmmaker...

Agri - TNCs Network - Philippines, MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura), KMP (Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas), PNSFP (Philippine Network for Food Security Programs), SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya), HEAD (Health action for Democracy), PAN Phils (Pesticide Action Network - Phils, TFIP (Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights), CENDI (Community Entrepreneur Development Institute), SRD (Center for Sustainable Rural Development), Vietnam, SPFT (Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand), AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement), SERUNI National Women's Alliance, Indonesia, NWFA (National Women Farmers and Workers Association), BAFLF (Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation), SHISUK (Shikha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram), Bangladesh, APVUU (Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union), ORRISSA (Organization for Rural Reconstruction and Integrated Social Services Activities), CREATE, India THANAL, India, Save Our Rice Network, India, PAN-INDIA (Pesticide Action Network - India), India, GRAIN, PAN-AP (Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific), APC (Asian Peasants Coalition), Consumers Union of Japan, Women's Development Federation WELIGEPOLA, MONLAR, Sri Lanka

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

In the indigenous Chatino region, these farmers, about half of them women, rely heavily on their coffee crop for their income.

Our BOLD Signature Coffee is proud to be part of Cafe Femenino Foundation, an all women farmer initiative.

The first Women of Australian Distilling dinner will be at Starward Distillery in Melbourne in October and is being organised in conjunction with Fully Booked Women, a network of female chefs, restaurateurs, coffee roasters, farmers and many other professionals in the field of food and drink.

Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

This association of over 400 women coffee farmers came together to solve issues including lack of capital to use on their farms and to create an equitable working relationship with their husbands.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

They are representatives of peasant and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples and food consumers.

We must work with the communities of our smallholder farmers, especially women; encourage multi-sectoral approaches to developing agricultural programmes that deliver positive nutrition and economic outcomes; and be accountable to the targets we set for achieving zero hunger by 2025.

Failed by flawed government policies and left out of development programs, women farmers around India are coming together to demand fair treatment and access the support to which they are entitled.

Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Irit Tamir of OxFam America outlined seven investments the world needs to make to feed our growing populations, such as investing in women, supporting small - scale farmers and securing everyone's right to water.

The volunteers at Congressional include a sugar - beet farmer (Jim House of Brawley, Calif.), a journalist (Gary Galyean, editor of iGolf), a two - time U.S. Women's Amateur champion (Carol Semple Thompson) and the secretary of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (Michael Bonallack).

I saw no part of me in these care - worn farmers, until I reached a picture of a group of women and one popped off the page, the only woman in the whole book wearing lipstick.